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===Anthem=== "Canzone Viola" (Purple Song) is the title of the Fiorentina's song, nowadays better known as "Oh Fiorentina".<ref name="lyricstranslate.com">{{cite web |url=https://lyricstranslate.com/en/acf-fiorentina-anthem-purple-song-actual-title-canzone-viola.html |title=ACF Fiorentina Anthem (English translation) |work=lyricstranslate.com |access-date=28 July 2021 |archive-date=1 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801133114/https://lyricstranslate.com/en/acf-fiorentina-anthem-purple-song-actual-title-canzone-viola.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is the oldest official football anthem in Italy and one of the oldest in the world.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-01 |title=105 anni fa nasceva Enzo Marcacci, l'autore del testo dell'inno viola |url=https://www.violanews.com/esclusive/esattamente-un-secolo-fa-nasceva-enzo-marcacci-lautore-del-testo-dellinno-della-fiorentina/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Viola News |language=it-IT}}</ref> Dated 1930 and born only four years after the creation of the club, the song was written by a 12-year-old child, Enzo Marcacci, and musically arranged by maestro Marco Vinicio.<ref name=":3" /> It was published for the first time by the publisher Marcello Manni, who later became the owner of the rights.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} It soon achieved notoriety thanks to the printed media and the Ordine del Marzocco, a sort of original viola-club, which printed the lyrics of the song and distributed it to a home match on November 22, 1931.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fiorentinamuseo.it/inno.html |title=L'Inno |access-date=23 January 2021 |archive-date=5 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505051315/http://www.fiorentinamuseo.it/inno.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The song was recorded by [[Narciso Parigi]] in 1959 and again in 1965; the latter version replaced the original edition as the Fiorentina anthem.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} Subsequently, Narciso Parigi himself acquired the ownership of the rights, which he donated in 2002 to the supporter club Collettivo Autonomo Viola.<ref name="lyricstranslate.com"/>
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